You can’t explain that. Therefore there is a god.

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History clearly shows that in time, we WILL learn the explanations. Just as we have learned that, without any doubt, the Earth is millions of years old and revolves around the sun, and that the distance from the Earth to “the stars” varies by almost unimaginable magnitudes.

That’s the gist of the argument – recently much augmented by the newly emergent “O’Reilly exception”, according to which the non-existence of an explanation is no longer required. It is now considered sufficient proof of god’s existence that you aren’t aware of an explanation, didn’t listen when somebody tried to give you the explanation or are just not capable of understanding it.

#11 This leads to some awkward questions:
1) Does that mean that god did not exist until Bill O’Rilly didn’t understand something?
2) If god did exist before 1), who (or whom) was the person that didn’t understand something that gave rise to god before Bill? Can the position be shared, or is it transmitted from one person to another, like the divine right of kings?

Actually, I think it’s “You can’t explain that, therefore *Christian* God.”. Because obviously, if you can’t provide a simple answer an idiot could understand to a complex question, the whole bible is therefore literally true. The same attitude defintely doesn’t support any of those other “weird” religions.

I don’t get this video. Too me it seems just as misguided as the religious argument it’s arguing against. Nobody knows how we got here, nobody knows that there’s no God and nobody knows that there is a God. Fundamental atheists are just as deluded as fundamentalist Christians.

So it’s ok to use multiverse as a scientific argument even though there’s no evidence for such a thing at all. Holy crap Batman, we just don’t know.

Pretending that a multiverse is more testable “in the future” is pretty lame. By that standard, God might also be testable “in the future,” how can anybody know it won’t be?

Seriously people, we just don’t know.

Deluded deluded deluded atheists. But at least the religious people know it’s a belief, not a scientific fact. They’re one ahead of you on that.

As an atheist, I don’t have any beliefs regarding what you might refer to as the supernatural. I do not believe there is a god, spirits or any other sort of “magic.” I also do not believe there is not any of those things. Given actual evidence that anything on that list actually exists, I would revise my lack of belief.

Atheism is not a belief system, it is merely a worldview that refuses to accept extraordinary claims as truth, without extraordinary evidence.

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Sometimes called the "fourth African ape," Sungudogo is not a Gorilla, not a Chimpanzee, not a Bonobo, and possibly not even real. Years ago, Sungudogo drew the interest of the world famous primatologist Dieter Phillips, who was funded by a secret society of "scholars and gentlemen" to launch an expedition to determine the veracity of this mysterious primate. Dieter never returned from that expedition, and as the years passed, the whole story drifted into obscurity. But the watchers were always watching, always waiting, for clues of the fate of this expedition. When new evidence came to light, the investigation was renewed into the outcome of Phillip's ill fated trek into the Rain Forest. Who better to follow Dieter Phillip's tracks than his former student, aided by an explorer and mercenary familiar with the area, assisted by two willing Congolese park guards?They were to learn things that went beyond their wildest imaginations, and they would discover secrets about Phillip's expedition, about the rift valley, about themselves, about humanity, that they would never be able to share but that would change their lives forever.